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Los Angeles Alt-Industrial Artist Staytus is Pulled by Danger and Desire in Video for “Secret Hand”

We’ll spread open to spread across the sky and I’ll take you with me on the day I die There are songs about temptation that behave like sermons, warning you…

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Duisburg Post-Punk Duo Mottek87 Examine What Progress Leaves Behind on “Kleinkunst” EP

Freedom is not the same as improvement, because freedom concerns our relationship to what happens, not merely the circumstances themselves. A prison can be renovated and still remain a prison…

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“For All We Care Is To Be Pleased” — Dutch New Wave Duo Pol Interviews Stylish Strangers in Video for “Sex Machines”

Hot gun, our promise bleeds You would never stop looking for me Have we left it all behind? Is it lust that’s holding the line? Intimacy becomes especially cruel once…

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Cult Goth Road Trip Movie “Gypsy 83” Returns in a Restored Director’s Cut — Expanded Soundtrack Features The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Echo & the Bunnymen, and More!

Twenty-five years is enough time for a cult film to acquire the patina of a period piece, but Gypsy 83 has always been preoccupied with people who regard the present…

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NYC Artist Frankie Rose Travels the Cosmos in Video for “Return to Dust”

Grief has a strange relationship with distance. The dead may be unreachable in any practical sense, yet the mind keeps inventing routes toward them: dreams, remembered voices, photographs, coincidences that…

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“I’m Lost in This Sea of Lies” — Leipzig Darkwave Project Kalte Steine is Caught in a Deluge of Duplicity in “Drowning”

I’m lost in this sea of lies And every voice is pulling me The deeper that I sink below The harder it becomes to breathe A society driven by private…

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Within These Walls — An Interview with Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape For a Blue Girl

As a young shoegaze kid flirting with goth at the turn of the century, discovering Projekt Records was an absolute game changer for me. For several years, I worshipped the…

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“We Suffer Oh So Silently” — Los Angeles Romantic Post-Punk Duo Deceits Share Video for “One Day You’ll Hurt As Much As Me”

Woe is me, woe is you Woe consumes both us two Heartbreak has a cruel invertibility: the person who opens the wound can remain the person we most want to…

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Black Marble Keeps Calm Amidst the Clamor of NYC in Video for “It Always Comes to Me”

Charm is one of the stranger forms of social currency, because its value depends on everybody agreeing, for a moment, to overlook the arithmetic. The charmer gets the favour, the…

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“Callin’ Back Your Dream” — Magic Wands Shimmer in Video for “Diamond Rain”

Caught in your head Feel it again What you need now Hope often starts out as a shift in perspective before transforming into something as steady as the stars in…

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